at my sewing machine

See this pile of fabric here. 

This fabric, my friends, is well on its way to being a red dinosaur and a complete Jedi outfit.

This has been a weekend full of cutting and pinning and sewing. 

And I have been lucky to have lots of helping hands.

When those hands are a bit smaller than mine, and belong to a very sweet creative boy that is my son, well that is a very special way of being together.  (Oh, just melts the heart of this creative mama when he asks to help!)

And when those hands are one generation older and much more capable than mine, well that is simply amazing!

Yep -- red dinosaur got a great start thanks to Nonnie!  Who is truly the most talented seamstress ever, but claims never to have made a dinosaur, so really we are just expanding her repertoire.

And you've never seen a kid sooooo excited to try on a Halloween costume.  So excited in fact that he is jumping up and down and up and down and up and down and his poor mother can't get a single in-focus picture of his beaming face. 

But boy he is super cute in that red costume -- and he is quite desperate to wear it.

Already he has tearfully begged to wear it to play outside.  And normally, this laid back mama would go with it.  However, the costume isn't even done yet and the dinosaur tail pretty much drags along the ground.  So in the interest of a somewhat clean and completed dinosaur on Halloween -- no go. 

Let's see how my conviction holds out as the week goes and the excitment builds!  What a lesson in patience.  (I'm not sure more for whom, him or me!)

So all in all, a wonderfully creative weekend here.

I hope you too got to spend time doing something you enjoy!